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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:25:06 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2The Mary Tyler Moore Show Cast Reuniteshttp://www.marytylermoore.org/the-mary-tyler-moore-show-cast-reunites.html
http://www.marytylermoore.org/the-mary-tyler-moore-show-cast-reunites.html#commentsTue, 30 Apr 2013 13:25:06 +0000adminhttp://www.marytylermoore.org/?p=57The Mary Tyler Moore Show is a famous American sitcom. The show starred Mary Tyler Moore, Edward Asner, Valerie Harper and Gavin MacLeod, as well as Ted Knight and Betty White. It aired on CBS between 1970 and 1977. No less than 7 seasons including about 168 episodes have been aired throughout the years, the show being quite an important success. One of the most successful sitcoms ever produced, The Mary Tyler Moore Show has recently made a reunion.

The cast of The Mary Tyler Moore Show reunited in April for their Hot in Cleveland appearance. The reunion was extremely emotional. However, Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, Betty White and Cloris Leachman claimed that they have always kept in touch. “We’re grateful for the fact that we love each other. We’ve always gotten along,” Betty White said during the reunion. “It would be different if it were one of those shows where we don’t speak. That wouldn’t have been any fun,” the actress also claimed.

However, there were not only good news that the famous actresses have to share. Valerie Harper has unfortunately been diagnosed with a severe condition. The star is facing terminal cancer and doctors have given her the worst prognosis possible. In March the actress has announced that doctors have given her as little as three months to live. Still, Valerie has been able to remain strong, claiming that all she wanted was to stay busy. She said that she joined the cast of Mary Tyler Moore show for the reunion episode Hot in Cleveland because she wanted to keep her mind busy and enjoy some wonderful moments with her friends.

The episode made for the TV Land comedy will air this summer. And even if the actresses will play different characters, it seems that the old chemistry between them is still there. “We still are ourselves, and no matter where you put us, we’re going to continue to be ourselves and interact as only you can when you’ve been together for a long, long time,” Mary Tyler Moore explained. “Almost any scene we ever did, we could look into each other’s eyes and be comforting and uplifting for each other,” the star also added.

Now, all fans have to do is to wait for this episode to be released. It will surely be an amazing experience to watch these five impressive actresses once again together on the big screen.

]]>http://www.marytylermoore.org/the-mary-tyler-moore-show-cast-reunites.html/feed0The Mary Tyler Moore Show Bloopershttp://www.marytylermoore.org/the-mary-tyler-moore-show-bloopers.html
http://www.marytylermoore.org/the-mary-tyler-moore-show-bloopers.html#commentsFri, 22 Mar 2013 09:22:47 +0000adminhttp://www.marytylermoore.org/?p=51The Mary Tyler Moore Show is a successful American television sitcom that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977. The program was a television breakthrough, as it had as the central character the first never-married, independent career woman – Mary Richards, portrayed by the one and only Mary Tyler Moore.

The show has been cited as one of the most acclaimed television programs ever produced in US television history. It received high praise from critics and numerous awards, including Emmy Awards for ‘Outstanding Comedy Series’ for three years in a row. Moreover, the program continued to be honored long after the final episode aired.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show has remained popular long after the final episode was broadcast in 1977. Several television programs, films and songs referenced or parodied characters and events from the show, including the memorable title song line “…can turn the world on with her smile”.

Two retrospective specials were produced by CBS: Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show (1991), and The Mary Tyler Moore Reunion (2000). However, one of the most popular and appreciated “specials”, if you can call them that, are the bloopers gag reels from the final season of the show.

After the watching the videos below, you will laugh even harder than you did when watching episodes from the show. They are also a great way of remembering The Mary Tyler Moore Show and all the actors who starred in it. Enjoy!

The Mary Tyler Moore Show Bloopers – Part 1

The Mary Tyler Moore Show Bloopers – Part 2

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http://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-commercials.html#commentsWed, 07 Nov 2012 15:13:53 +0000adminhttp://www.marytylermoore.org/?p=46Mary Tyler Moore is a famous American actress, known for her roles in television sitcoms and is beset known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In that show she starred as Mary Richards, a single woman who worked as a local journalist. The actress appeared in many films and has received several awards throughout time.

She was born in Brooklyn, New York and was the eldest of three siblings. Her family and her moved to Los Angeles when she was eight years old. Moore attended Saint Rose of Lima, which was a Catholic school in Brooklyn and then the Immaculate Heart High School.

Mary Tyler Moore had television roles on Private Detective and Richard Diamond, but she also appeared in several Broadway plays such as Sweet Sue, Whose Life Is It Anyway, as well as Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Moore also wrote two memoirs entitled After All and Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes.

She is also a businessperson. Mary Tyler Moore founded MTM Enterprises, Inc. in 1969. It’s incredible how many things she is able to do. Nonetheless, she also appeared in many commercials when she way young, promoting various products. These commercials increased her popularity, but people trusted those products just because Mary Tyler Moore appeared in them. The most popular commercials are:

1956 Mary Tyler Moore Hotpoint commercial:

1954 Happy Hotpoint commercial:

Classic Pepsodent commercial:

Cigarette Commercial 1960′s with Dick Van Dyke commercial:

Although they are fairly old, these commercials are very nice and representative for that time. Mary Tyler Moore was charming, young and persuasive. Her public image was great and glamorous, so it was perfect for commercials.

At the age of 75, actress Mary Tyler Moore was recognized for her Lifetime Achievement at the Screen Actors Guild Awards 2012. Famous for her role as Mary Richards in the 1970s hit sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the actress has had a more than fulfilled career, through which she managed to showcase a massive amount of talent and of acting skill.

Her former co-star Dick Van Dyke decided to honor Mary Tyler Moore in the presentation speech by praising her and by stating that MTM is something familiar to all people. To this, he added the numerous activities of the actress over the years and the work that she has done in the domain through MTM Enterprises.

During her acceptance speech, Mary Tyler Moore mentioned the fact that her name was close to being unknown to the public. There were several actresses in the Guild named Mary Moore, so she added the middle name of her and her father in her screen name. After all the years of hard work, she is proud to state her name out loud and to make a difference in the entertainment industry.

You can watch the award ceremony in the video bellow:

]]>http://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-honored-at-sag-awards.html/feed0Mary Tyler Moore Movie Careerhttp://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-movie-career.html
http://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-movie-career.html#commentsTue, 25 Sep 2012 12:54:56 +0000adminhttp://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-movie-career.htmlMary Tyler Moore was born on December 29, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York. She became one of television’s most beloved wives on The Dick van Dyke Show and won two Emmys for her work on the series, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, featuring a single, thirty-something woman in the working world.

In the video below, you can see an extract of the Dick van Dyke Show, where she and Dick sing You Wonderful You, while they perform an amazing dance routine.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show hit the airwaves in 1970, and her character was in step with the times. Audiences identified with her portrayal of Mary Richards, a single thirty something woman in the working world. The comedy show followed Mary’s personal and professional life as she worked at a television news department and also featured Ed Asner, Gavin MacLeod, Ted Knight, and Valerie Harper.

Ending a seven-year run on television, Mary Tyler Moore tried again to find another series. She made several attempts, including 1978′s Mary and 1995′s New York News, but none of her new shows caught on with television audiences. She did, however, continue to have success in other acting endeavours. She won a Tony Award for her performance of Whose Life is it Anyway? (1980) on Broadway.

Mary Tyler Moore also received an Academy Award nomination for Ordinary People that same year. The movie was about the accident of the older son of an affluent family. The tragic accident deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.

In addition to her acting, Mary Tyler Moore devoted much of her time to the American Diabetes Association.

]]>http://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-movie-career.html/feed0Mary Tyler Moore And Her Charity Workhttp://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-and-her-charity-work.html
http://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-and-her-charity-work.html#commentsThu, 05 Jul 2012 19:41:38 +0000http://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-and-her-charity-work.htmlMary Tyler Moore is a popular and appreciated American actress and dancer. She is known for the roles she had on Mary Tyler Moore show and on The Dick Van Dyke Show. She was passionate about dancing and soon after she graduated high school, she started to appear in many commercials, which contributed to her fame. Moore also acted in other films such as Richard Diamond, Private Detective and also in many television series. The actress was born in the Brooklyn Heights and was the eldest of the siblings. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was little and there she attended Saint Rose of Lima, which was a Catholic school in Brooklyn.

When she was o17, she wanted to become a dancer and she started her career as a tiny elf on Hotpoint appliances in TV commercials. She appeared in many commercials and gained a lot of money. Mary’s first role was on Richard Diamond, Private Detective and she appeared in many shows, which was the proof that she is a very famous and talented actress. Her career continued with theatre, which also was a wonderful period of time in her life. She had the possibility to do something different and to know new and talented people. Plus, it was a change for her.

Mary Tyler Moore appeared in many Broadway plays and had various roles, but she also received criticism. Related to movies, Mary Tyler had her debut in 1961, but soon, she acted in many other films such a What’s So Bad About Feeling Good, Like Mother, Like Son, The Gin Game and for Stolen Babies she won an Emmy Award. The actress was married Richard Carleton Meeker and the couple has a boy. The couple divorced and Moore married Grant Tinker, but they divorced in 1981 and in 1983 she married Dr. Robert Levin. The celebrity suffered a lot when her boy died. Now, she is involved in charity work, trying to help children who suffer from diabetes, but also from other diseases which may affect their lives. She ids also an animal activist and she has actually worked for animal rights several years and she actress also donated a lot of money for all these purposes.

]]>http://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-and-her-charity-work.html/feed0The Success of Mary Tyler Moore Showhttp://www.marytylermoore.org/the-success-of-mary-tyler-moore-show.html
http://www.marytylermoore.org/the-success-of-mary-tyler-moore-show.html#commentsThu, 14 Jun 2012 06:27:46 +0000http://www.marytylermoore.org/the-success-of-mary-tyler-moore-show.htmlMary Tyler Moore is a famous American actress and dancer best known for her roles in two classic sitcoms, as the mildly neurotic wife on The Dick Van Dyke Show and as the single working woman on her own Mary Tyler Moore show. She started dancing professionally within weeks of graduating from high school, and danced in live TV commercials. As an actress, her first TV series was Richard Diamond, Private Detective, where she played David Janssen’s secretary, but the camera never showed her face, just her legs. She also played Laura Petrie on Van Dyke’s popular sitcom, and several years after that show ended CBS offered her a series of her own. Although very much relics of their rime, both shows were popular, and the MTM Show is often referred to as ground breaking.

It was not the first sitcom of the genre, where the main character was a single woman on her own in the big city, but it was the first where she was truly on her own, without a recurring father, boyfriend, or fiancée looking out for her. It also may have been the first show to discretely mention birth control, with an one line allusion that Mary was sexually active on the pill.

As the show was originally conceived, Moore would have played a divorced woman, the first divorced lead on TV, but CBS executives worried that viewers would think she had divorced Van Dyke, and thus be unable to warm to her character. Instead, the backstory of her Mary Richards character was the she had broken up with her fiancé. Moore and her then-husband Grant Tinker, a Hollywood producer who later became President of NBC, started their own production company to produce the MTM Show. They called it MTM Enterprises, and in a play on MGM’s roaring lion, the MTM logo was a meowing kitten.

The MTM Show may hold the record for most spin-off series. Valerie Harper played the perpetually single Rhoda, Cloris Leachman was the mildly overbearing Phyllis, and Ed Asner played Mary’s growling boss, Lou Grant. MTM Enterprises produced all the spin-oofs, as well as Bob Newhart’s The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart. Her sitcoms made Moore an icon of comedy, and she capitalised on that by playing exponentially against type as the frigid grieving mother in 1980′s Ordinary People. She also had five TV series after MTM Show, none of which was renewed for a second season.

]]>http://www.marytylermoore.org/the-success-of-mary-tyler-moore-show.html/feed0The Rich Career of Mary Tyler Moorehttp://www.marytylermoore.org/the-rich-career-of-mary-tyler-moore.html
http://www.marytylermoore.org/the-rich-career-of-mary-tyler-moore.html#commentsTue, 15 May 2012 20:11:25 +0000http://www.marytylermoore.org/the-rich-career-of-mary-tyler-moore.htmlMary Tyler Moore was born in Brooklyn, on December 29 1939, though Moore’s family relocated to California when she was eight. Her childhood was troubled due in part to her mother’s alcoholism. The oldest of three siblings, she attended a Catholic high school and married upon her graduation in 1995. Her only child, Richie was born soon after. A dancer at first, Moore’s first break in show business was in 1955, as a dancing kitchen appliance Happy Hotpoint, the Hotpoint Appliance elf, in commercials generally broadcast during the popular TV program The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. She then shifted from dancing to acting, and work soon came, at first a number of guest roles on TV series, but eventually a recurring role as Sam, Richard Diamond’s sultry answering service girl on Richard Diamond – Private Detective, her performance being particularly notorious because her legs were shown instead of her face.

Although those early roles often took advantage of her willowy charms, Moore’s career soon took a more substantive turn as she was cast in two of the most highly regarded comedies in television history, which would air first run for most of the Sixties and Seventies. In the first of these, The Dick van Dyke Show, Moore played Laura Petrie the charmingly loopy wife of Dick van Dyke. The show became famous for its very clever writing and terrific comic first husband, and later married ad man.

After the end of the Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Tyler Moore focused on movie making, co-starring in five between the need of the show and the start of Mary Tyler Moore Show including Thoroughly Modern Mills, in which she plays a ditsy aspiring actress and an inane Elvis Presley vehicle Change of Habit, in which she plays a nun to be and love interest for Presley.

Widely acknowledged as being much tougher and more high strung than her iconic image image would suggest, Mary Tyler Moore has had a life with more than the normal share of ups and downs. Both of her siblings predeceased her, her sister Elizabeth of a rug overdose in 1978 and her brother of cancer after a failed attempt at assisted suicide. She was also involved in politics and was described more as a liberal or moderate liberal. In the later years of her career, she was awarded with a prize for her entire career.

]]>http://www.marytylermoore.org/the-rich-career-of-mary-tyler-moore.html/feed0Mary Tyler Moore – Acting Career in Televisionhttp://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-acting-career-in-television.html
http://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-acting-career-in-television.html#commentsThu, 12 Apr 2012 14:41:30 +0000http://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-acting-career-in-television.htmlMary Tyler Moore is a well known and appreciated American actress. The star is also popular for hosting her own show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, between 1970 and 1977. In fact, Mary Tyler Moore is mostly appreciated for her long time work in television and her great roles in television sitcoms. Mary Tyler Moore debuted in the acting industry in 1958. She was only 17 when she had her first project in television. In fact, her debut appearance was in Happy Hotpoint, after that the actress receiving various parts in commercials, too.

In the 1950s, Mary Tyler Moore was cast in Ozzie and Harriet. The role in this popular television series has made Mary Tyler Moore a true star. And her success was so amazing that the actress appeared in no less than 39 commercials in only 5 days. She then got a role in Richard Diamond, Private Detective, but the actress also starred in Johnny Staccato. During this period of time, Mary Tyler Moore has made guest appearances in numerous other television series, too. For instance, the actress starred in Overland Trail, but also The Tub Hunter Show. In the 1960s, Mary Tyler Moore already was a true television star. In 1961, the actress was cast in The Dick Van Dyke Show. She actually won an Emmy award for this great performance. The Rachel Ray Show, Run A Crooked Mile, Rhoda, Phyllis, How to Survive the 70′s, Mary, First, You Cry, Annie McGuire, Stolen Babies, The Last Best Year and New York News are some of the numerous television appearances that Mary Tyler Moore made before 1996.

Starting with 1996, Mary Tyler Moore got many other parts in television shows such as Mary and Rhonda, Ellen, Payback, The Gin Game, Blessings, Show Wonder, Lipstick Jungle, but also Hot in Cleveland. As it surely seems, Mary Tyler Moore is one of the most successful and appreciated actresses in television. With numerous shows, television series, but also guest appearances in both series and various shows, Mary Tyler Moore remains well known all around the world as one of the most prolific television stars.

]]>http://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-acting-career-in-television.html/feed0Mary Tyler Moore – TV Personality, Activist and Actresshttp://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-tv-personality-activist-and-actress.html
http://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-tv-personality-activist-and-actress.html#commentsMon, 19 Mar 2012 14:38:44 +0000http://www.marytylermoore.org/mary-tyler-moore-tv-personality-activist-and-actress.htmlMary Tyler Moore is an American actress, born December 29, 1936, known primarily for her roles in television sitcoms. Mary Tyler Moore is best known for the Mary Tyler More Show, in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis. The show was a television breakthrough. The Mary Tyler Moore show presented the main character as different from the other single women presented on TV. The character Mary Tyler Moore played was neither widowed or divorced, or even seeking a man to support her.

Mary Tyler Moore has been active in charity work and various political causes, particularly around the issues of animal rights and Diabetes mellitus type 1. Mary Tyler Moore was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the beginning of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. She also dealt with alcoholism, which was treated in the 1980s. In may 2011, Mary Tyler Moore underwent elective brain surgery to remove a benign meningioma.

Aside from her television career, Mary Tyler Moore also pursued a career in theatre, as she appeared in several Broadway plays. In 1980, Mary Tyler Moore starred in Whose Life is it Anyway, with James Naughton and ran for 96 performances. Mary Tyler Moore was also the star of the musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Unfortunately, the show was a flop and closed before opening night. The acting career of Mary Tyler Moore was not that bright. For eleven years, Mary Tyler Moore decided not to appear in any feature film.

Mary Tyler Moore is also involved in many charity projects. Mary Tyler Moore has used her profile to help raise funds and raise awareness of Diabetes Mellitus Type 1. Because of the gravity of the disease, she almost lost her vision and one limb. She is also an animal rights activist and promoted her cause on the Ellen DeGeneres. For many years, she has been working with Farm Sanctuary to raise awareness about the cruelty of factory farming and to promote the compassionate treatment of farm animals. Be that as it may, Mary Tyler Moore left an important legacy in the television industry and in charitable organisations.